Westland Aircraft

Westland N.1B / N.16, N.17 1917 Westland Aircraft began design of its first aircraft in 1917, in response to an Admiralty ... read more ... A contemporary of the Sopwith Snail and the BAT Bantam, the Wagtail was similarly designed ... read more ... Westland Wagtail 1918 Westland Weasel 1918 read more ... Immediately after the signing of the Armistice, in November 1918, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Davenport ... read more ... Westland Limousine 4 Seat 1919 Westland Limousine 6 Seat 1920 The second Westland venture in civil aircraft was the Six-seat Limousine, a development of the ... read more ... The years following the conclusion of the First World War were notable for an official ... read more ... Westland Walrus 1921 Westland Dreadnought 1923 One result of the First World War was to speed up the development of aeroplanes, ... read more ... The diminutive Woodpigeon biplane was first conceived as the Westland entry in the Air Ministry's ... read more ... Westland Woodpigeon 1924 Westland Widgeon 1924 The Widgeon was the first high-wing monoplane to be built by Westland, and was the ... read more ... In the early 1920's Captain (now Professor) G. T. R. Hill began a study of ... read more ... Westland Pterodactyl Mk IA, IB 1925 Westland Yeovil 1925 The astounding progress of aeronautical research and design is aptly illustrated by the fact that ... read more ... The first attempt by Westland to develop a monoplane fighter evolved from a private venture ... read more ... Westland Wizard 1926 Westland Westbury 1926 Specification 4/24 issued by the Air Ministry during 1924 called for the design of a ... read more ... The Wapiti was a two-seat general-purpose biplane incorporating in its design several de Havilland D.H.9A ... read more ... Westland Wapiti 1927 Westland Witch 1928 In the middle 1920's, the Air Ministry issued a Specification for a single-engined high-altitude day-bomber ... read more ... Despite the known antipathy of the Air Ministry towards the monoplane as a fighter configuration, ... read more ... Westland F.20/27 Interceptor 1928 Westland Wessex 1929 The first Westland commercial aeroplane, the 1919 Limousine four-seat cabin biplane, was an early ... read more ... Usually known as the COW-Gun Fighter, this prototype monoplane was one of two ordered by ... read more ... Westland F.29/27 C.O.W. Gun Fighter 1930 Westland PV.3 1931 In the final phase of the biplane era, marked by the successful Wapiti and Wallace ... read more ... In the. year 1931 a British Empire Exhibition was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at ... read more ... Westland Wallace 1931 Westland Pterodactyl IV 1931 Although the Pterodactyl produced in 1931 was given the designation of Mark IV it was ... read more ... TYPE.—Two-seat tailless fighter sesquiplane. The fourth Pterodactyl, and third and final Westland-Hill production, was the Pterodactyl ... read more ... Westland Pterodactyl V 1932 Westland PV.7 1933 While the Wapiti and Wallace biplanes were yet giving good service with the Royal Air ... read more ... To meet the requirements of Specification F.7/30 for a four-gun day and night fighter powered ... read more ... Westland F.7/30 1934 Westland Lysander 1936 With a name that is perhaps the best-known among Westland products, the Westland Lysander originated ... read more ... The only Westland fighter to achieve operational status with the RAF, the Whirlwind was designed ... read more ... Westland Whirlwind 1938 Westland Welkin 1942 On 9 January 1941, Westland was authorised by the Ministry of Aircraft Production to proceed ... read more ... Under the project designation P.10, Westland began to study early in 1944 a long-range shipboard ... read more ... Westland Wyvern TF Mk 1 1946 Westland Wyvern TF Mk 2 / S Mk.4 1949 Almost a year before the first flight of the Wyvern TF Mk 1, the Naval ... read more ...